Maxim B. Litvak
[email protected]Max Litvak, resident in the firm’s San Francisco and Houston offices, specializes in bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Max has represented debtors, trustees, creditors, and creditors’ committees in numerous bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructurings. Max has authored a number of papers on insolvency issues and has lectured at various seminars and bar association meetings. Max is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received his J.D. from Duke University. Every year since 2014, Max has been named a “Northern California Super Lawyer” in a peer survey conducted by Law & Politics and the publishers of San Francisco Magazine—an honor bestowed on only 5% of Northern California attorneys—and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for his work in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2016. Max is admitted to practice in Texas and California, and speaks fluent Russian.
Credentials
Education
- University of California at Berkeley (B.A. 1994)
- Duke University School of Law (J.D. 1997)
Bar and Court Admissions
- 1997, Texas
- 2001, California
Representations
- Chapter 11 debtors including Synthego Corporation (Delaware); Kal Freight (Texas); Sientra (Delaware), AmeriFirst Financial (Delaware), Amyris (Delaware), Athenex (Houston), Noble House Home Furnishings (Houston), Lifesize (Laredo), Medly Health (Delaware), GigaMonster Networks, Easterday Ranches and Easterday Farms (Yakima), CarbonLite (Delaware), Ruby Tuesday (Delaware), Watsonville Hospital (San Jose), Highland Capital (Delaware), Fuse Media (Delaware), White Eagle ( Delaware), True Religion Apparel (Delaware), A.M. Castle (Delaware), Forbes Energy Services (Houston), Channel Technologies (Santa Barbara), Variant Holding Company (Delaware), Digital Domain Media (Delaware); Solyndra LLC (Delaware), Pacific Energy (Delaware), Woodside Homes (Riverside), Nellson Nutraceutical (Delaware), Proxim Corporation (Delaware), Sydran Services (Oakland), Deltagen (San Francisco), General Magic (San Jose), and Quokka Sports (San Francisco)
- Creditors’ committees including Red Lobster (Orlando), 99 Cents Stores (Delaware), Ambri (Delaware), Hornblower (Houston), Careismatic (New Jersey), Cineworld (Houston), Party City (Houston), Bed Bath & Beyond (New Jersey), AgileThought (Delaware), Neiman Marcus (Houston), Tailored Brands (Houston), Boy Scouts of America (Delaware), Barneys New York (New York), Payless Holdings (2019) (Missouri), Weinstein Company (Delaware), Bon-Ton Stores (Delaware), Marbles Brain Store (Chicago), Carinalli (Santa Rosa), Humboldt Creamery (Santa Rosa), Pacific Lumber (Corpus Christi), SeraCare (San Diego), At Home Corporation (San Francisco), Software Logistics (Oakland), Hooters of America, LLC (Texas), and Conns’ Inc. (Houston)
Professional Affiliations
- Member, Bench-Bar Liaison Committee of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (2010-13)
- Turnaround Management Association, Northern California Chapter (Membership Committee, 2007-08; Secretary, 2004-07)
Programs & Lectures
Bar Association of San Francisco, American Bar Association, Turnaround Management Association
Publications
- Coauthor with D. Grassgreen: First Day Motions: A Guide to the Critical First Days of a Bankruptcy Case (ABI 2d ed. 2006)
- Author, “What Does an Insider Have to Do to Make a Buck? A Commentary on the Recent Revisions to Section 503 of the Bankruptcy Code Limiting the Approval of Retention, Severance and Other Bonus Compensation to Insiders,” in Bankruptcy Reform 2005 at 63 (LRP Publications 2005)
- Author, “Retention and Compensation of Investment Bankers in Bankruptcy Cases,” 23 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 30 (April 2004)
- Contributing editor, Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice (2006 – 2010)